Posted on 09/19/2005 10:47:19 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Have a look at this just-received email from Kerry, touting a speech he will be giving at Brown regarding the hurricane and W's response.
Definite Category 5 Hurl material.
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Dear ,
In a few hours, I will deliver a major address at Brown University about what the rage and destruction of Katrina have revealed. I want you to be one of the first to read and reflect upon the text of this speech for a very simple reason.
It's time for each and every one of us to say what needs to be said -- with the full force of our convictions, with nothing held back. This speech is my attempt to do exactly that -- and your response to my call to action will define the work of the johnkerry.com community far into the future.
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_09_19.html
Natural and human calamity have stripped away the spin machine, creating a rare accountability moment, not just for the Bush administration, but for all of us to take stock of the direction of our country and do what we can to reverse it. That's our job -- to turn this moment from a frenzied expression of guilt into a national reversal of direction.
We've seen America at its best and our government at its worst. Millions of Americans are beginning to realize where they fit in our democracy under Republican governance: nowhere.
It's time for a fundamental debate about the choices we are making as a nation. Here is some of the language I will use later today to help provoke that badly needed national conversation:
The Katrina Administration
Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do. Michael Brown -- or Brownie as the President so famously thanked him for doing a heck of a job -- Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what George Tenet is to slam dunk intelligence; what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what Tom Delay is to ethics; and what George Bush is to "Mission Accomplished" and "Wanted Dead or Alive." The bottom line is simple: the "we'll do whatever it takes" administration doesn't have what it takes to get the job done.
This is the Katrina administration.
The Real Test of Katrina
This is the real test of Katrina. Will we be satisfied to only do the immediate: care for the victims and rebuild the city? Or will we be inspired to tackle the incompetence that left us so unprepared, and the societal injustice that left so many of the least fortunate waiting and praying on those rooftops?
Making the Gulf Coast a Right-Wing Laboratory
The rush now to camouflage their misjudgments and inaction with money does not mean they are suddenly listening. It's still politics as usual. The plan they're designing for the Gulf Coast turns the region into a vast laboratory for right wing ideological experiments. They're already talking about private school vouchers, abandonment of environmental regulations, abolition of wage standards, subsidies for big industries, and believe it or not yet another big round of tax cuts for the wealthiest among us!
Please take a moment right now to read the entire speech.
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_09_19.html
Let's be absolutely clear about the moment we are in. The weeks ahead will define our country's direction -- our understanding of ourselves, what we believe in, what we insist on creating, what we refuse to let happen.
The speech I will deliver in a matter of hours is about saying what needs to be said. In the weeks ahead, our entire johnkerry.com community must engage in doing what needs to be done. I know I can count on you to stand with me as we take on that challenge -- and I will be in touch in the days ahead about our next steps together.
Sincerely,
John Kerry
P.S. There is one thing you can do right now. Share this speech by forwarding it to as many people as possible. We're going to need all the help we can get in the days and weeks ahead.
It's just another CYA for the democrats.
EeeGads .. they just get more obnoxious.
John who?
Uh, John, could you offer any less painful alternatives to reading your entire speech? Jamming a screwdriver in one's ear, perhpas? Listening to a 50-hour long loop of Countdown with Keith Olbermann? Double-dating with Cindy Sheehan and Helen Thomas?
ROFLOL!
They are going to have to change the symbol of the Democratic party from a Donkey to a limp penis.
Pathetic how he deludes himself into thinking anyone could possibly care about anything he has to say, isn't it?
When he speaks of "our entire johnkerry.com community," I wonder who he has in mind? I figure the entire "community" should be able to fit comfortably into one of the large SUVs Teresa lets him use.
His wife just quit using the name Kerry. Even she doesn't want to be associated with this loser.
"Uh, John, could you offer any less painful alternatives to reading your entire speech? Jamming a screwdriver in one's ear, perhaps?"
I prefer the screwdriver in the ear
Kerry is such a loser
Thanks - just thought that one up, inspired by the Kerry barfer.
I hate when that happens ;-)
Gee, I always tell my non Internet-savvy friends that, whenever you see a comment such as this in an e-mail, it's generally a scam, and should be thrown away, not propagated!
"We've seen America at its best and our government at its worst."
I agree. Now, Johnny, what do you say about expansion of government and the good that they can do?
"The plan they're designing for the Gulf Coast turns the region into a vast laboratory for right wing ideological experiments."
Why not? It has been the left wing laboratory for decades and the results were the "incompetence that left us so unprepared, and the societal injustice that left so many of the least fortunate waiting and praying on those rooftops!"
Hey, JFnK, what exactly is your plan?
Well, the late Admiral Stockdale was gracious in defeat. Heck, he was wondering about his relevance even before the election was over: "what am I doing here?"
But, John Francois just has to understand that no matter how much he would like to he just can't run against W again. So he can give all of the useless speeches he wants tyring to trash the Bush administration however, most people are not going to give a rats ass what he thinks and even if he were to convince everyone that everything is Bush's fault he's still not running against him in '08!
I really wish Kerry would read this thread and see that, even worse than scorn, he is treated with hoots and derision.
Politically speaking, he is deader than the parrot in A Fish Called Wanda.
I am sure the full speech will talk about how it took weeks for the Clinton administration to provide aid and support after Hurricane Floyd. Sure it will, I forgot, this is John Kerry, the truth is irrelevant.
I love how Bush is always responsible for every single action of every single person, even natural disasters, but not one demonrat is ever held accountable for anything.
I just wish the ketchupboy would go back to the way he was pre-2004 -- invisible -- mute -- always on vacation -- never at the Senate.
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